If you have thermometer 🌡 and is it cold outside, can you take your temp, go outside 5 minutes, come back in & take your temp again, then post it?

[VIVANT]

I’m just curious bc my temp runs low normally- around 95-97 F but when I go out it goes to what is _supposed to be hypothermia but I’m guessing it’s not my internal temp just my mouth being cold? Or it’s my actual temp but it comes back up pretty soon so I don’t worry, I’m just curious if it’s like that for everyone.

Also bc of the fact my temp runs low, I use three different thermometers to make sure they work properly. So don’t worry about whether they work or not 😂

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[Guardian45]

First of all, it depends on how exposed you are to the cold. For example, are you wearing a coat, hat, gloves?

Humans, unlike fish or reptiles, are homeothermic animals meaning they must maintain a constant body temperature, typically above that of the surroundings, by metabolic means. Failure to do so
results in death.

As you get colder, your body shuts off blood supply to your limbs in order to maintain your body (e. g. heart & major organs) core temperature. As body temperature drops your limbs become numb, your thinking foggy and you become very sleepy, eventually succumbing to death.

[Guardian45]

"At an internal temperature of 95 degrees, humans can experience hypothermia, shivering and pale skin. At 86 degrees, they become unconscious and, at 77 degrees, cardiac arrest can occur. Most people cannot survive if their core temperature drops to 75 degrees."

[VIVANT]

Yup that’s why I’m asking bc it may just be that the air in surface skin or in my mouth is colder rather than my actual body temp I really should try this with

At 95 -96 I’m totally fine it’s when I feel beat but at 93 I’m def shivering but certainly not crossbar... I was surprised to read 94 or 92 I can’t recall- is beginning of hypothermia hit it just he a crude peripheral boundary for serious cold like the numbers you mentioned.

[VIVANT]

That’s why I was curious for other people to Try or orally, to see if everyone’s temp drops just bc their mouth gets cold. Esp people with more “normal” normal temps.

[Guardian45]

Thank you for MHG!

[GoodGuyBreakingBad]

I would imagine that going outside for 5 minutes and consider the outside temperature would give you a much lower body temperature now I could be wrong, but my body temperature also runs a little low when taking at the doctors for my checkup

[GoodGuyBreakingBad]

Thanks for MHO :-p :-P :-) :D

[Andres77]

Try the axillary temp. Under your armpit.

It's also about a degree lower. 96-97.

If you want the most accurate, rectal is best but you have to use one dedicated to only that.

[VIVANT]

I know. I’m not trying to get a more accurate temp. I’m wondering what readings other people get from their oral thermometers. They are not as accurate but they are all not as accurate. If everyone uses an oral thermometer then all the readings will be similarity skewed. I should’ve added that it be oral bc I forgot there are ear and firebrand thermometers too which are becoming common. 😊

[matchrestore]

At the start of the pandemic my wife and kids were at a rented cabin for a few days before I could join them. I got a bit of a cough but no other COVID symptoms, but my wife wanted me to take my temp just to be sure I didn't have a fever before i drove out to join them. Problem is, she had the oral and ear thermometers, leaving me with just the rectal thermometer. I was prepared for the worst, but it actually wasn't bad. And I didn't have a fever so I got to join them.

[Sevenpointfive]

stop using digital thermometers. they never work

[VIVANT]

What do you use?

[VIVANT]

My temp is basically the same very day so they must work to an extent. 🤷🏻‍♀️

[Sevenpointfive]

i don't need to check my temperature daily, but if i did it would be with a mercury thermometer

[VIVANT]

They don’t sell those kinds do they? I’ve never seen one 🤔

[Sevenpointfive]

not in a drugstore. but doctors still use them. maybe get one online

[Static_In_The_Attic]

Static’s Time & Temperature…

[Static_In_The_Attic]

Update: It’s 79 degrees Fahrenheit & the current time is 2:53pm

[humanearth]

Our outdoor thermometer that sits by the big window is broken

But the one by by the chicken coop says its 30F outside. That's warm for our winter

[ManHater]

Hypothermia is a very very different area. It's when your body conserves it's self to survive. jump in a frozen lake for 3 min and come out and ask?

[NathanDavis]

mine also reads about 96 regardless of the weather... lol

always been like that

[TonyMetal___86]

I suggest that tou stay inside comfy and warm skyscrapper girl cause the weather is bad i think 😌

Maybe spend some time in your small office corner, don't know if you still have it 😄